On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:56:04PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At 8:29 PM +0100 11/7/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> > >Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > >>On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 06:36 AM, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>For 'bit', the key value is (eenie, meenie, ...) '1'.
> > >
> > >> From A2 we have:
> > >>
> > >>"Run-time properties really are associated with the object in
> > >>question, which implies some amount of overhead. For that reason,
> > >>intrinsic data types like C<int> and C<num> may or may not allow
> > >>run-time properties.
> > >
> > >From E2: a C<int> will never have attributes or promote to an object.
> >
> > Attributes aren't properties.
>
> I thought:
>
> 'attributes' :Perl5 == 'properites' isa Perl6
Yeah. Where the Apocalyses and Exegeses say "attributes" they are
referring to data members of an object:
class Foo {
has $.bar is friendly;
}
$.bar is an attribute (of Foo-ish objects), friendly is a property (of
the $.bar attribute).
> Can someone point me to Perl6 definitions for both terms?
It's probably in Michael Lazzaro's documentation somewhere ;-)
-Scott
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